From the map room — a Sanborn fire-insurance map of Sonoma in 1888. Drawn for insurers, these maps recorded every building in a town, street by street — a remarkably intimate snapshot of the valley’s towns a century ago.

From the map room — a Sanborn fire-insurance map of Sonoma in 1888. Drawn for insurers, these maps recorded every building in a town, street by street — a remarkably intimate snapshot of the valley’s towns a century ago.
